Hi Yabb Folks, I manage a YaBB community for Brooklyn NY's ConeyIsland.com website and have a small emergency. I'm hoping someone can help me resolve the issue.

Our server ran out of available space yesterday and any files that were being uploaded to the server ended up uploading as 0k files. Consequently, any YaBB user who tried to log in had their Yabb Account deleted as any text files YaBB wrote to the file system ended up being empty text files. Unfortunately, both admins tried logging in and YaBB sees their accounts as deleted.

I had a backup of my admin.vars file and tried uploading that. I can login now, but I keep getting a message "Unable to open ./Members/admin.ims". However as this user I was able to get to the admin interface and put the boards into maintenance mode.

I have also been able to create a new user login. Is there a way of tweaking something on the server side to make this user an admin?

Thanks! That seems to have done the trick! Several folks had their account files zeroed out, so I guess they will have to re-register, but aside from that it all seems ok. I'll look into upgrading to 2.5 and get a regular backup going.